Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of the vast size of Siberia , the relatively small numbers of Russians operating there in the seventeenth century , and the difficulty of carrying out a census of a mobile population , it seems likely that these figures somewhat underestimate the number of indigenous Siberians before the Russian conquest . |
| 2 | Increased co-operation between states has been a significant feature of the post-1945 world order , reflecting the reduced ability of states to act autonomously in the global arena . |
| 3 | The value of projects lies less in the subject matter than in the fact that topics are chosen and worked on by the pupils themselves . |
| 4 | The fellow grinned , his yellow stumps of teeth shining garishly in the poor light . |
| 5 | Not raising her head , nor even starting , at the sudden clamour of birds squabbling out in the clearing . |
| 6 | The idea of bringing the elderly , disabled and mentally ill out of institutions to live independently in the community has been talked about for almost forty years . |
| 7 | Is not social work the application of skills picked up in the ‘ University of Life ’ and do we not all know what deprived infants and troublesome adolescents need ? |
| 8 | Playing at an altitude of over 5,000 feet and in humid conditions , Canada introduced only two new caps , B.C. no.8 Colin McKenzie and Scott MacKinnon , the Ontario wing who joined flanker Gord to give Canada its first instance of brothers appearing together in the same international side . |
| 9 | In the event it proved possible to release some of these funds as the proportional receipt of subscriptions improved later in the year . |
| 10 | ‘ An entire generation of Filipinos grew up in the shadow of dictatorship , ’ wrote Sheila Coronel of the Manila Times . |
| 11 | It can also provide them with a conceptual context within which to work , in the form of hypotheses to test out in the conditions of their particular classrooms . |
| 12 | ( ‘ Atlantic ’ ) , the holding company of a group of companies engaged worldwide in the financing of computer leasing , for a consideration of approximately £420m . |
| 13 | In the case of the incubator thesis , there is evidence ( certainly from London — Nicholson , Brinkley and Evans , 1981 ) that few sections of industry seek out inner-urban locations , and that only a small number of companies migrate outwards in the classical fashion . |
| 14 | Around the Acousticube 's rear , the dominant feature is a large heatsink to help dispel the warmth of transistors cooking away in the virtually sealed box . |
| 15 | In conclusion , the argument that the duty of directors to act only in the interests of the shareholders operates to ensure that the will of the shareholders is implemented by the management of the company is fundamentally flawed because the directors have considerable discretion in defining exactly what the interests of the shareholders are . |
| 16 | Yet the total number of farmsteads built out in the fields between the villages is very small . |
| 17 | The Department will make residential placements only in residential or nursing homes registered with Lothian Regional Council Social Work Department , with Lothian Health Board , or with any other Local Authority or Health Board in Scotland , or a Local Authority or Health Authority in England and Wales ; within the parameters on assessment , cost and availability of places set out in the Government 's Statutory Direction on Choice of Residential Accommodation , the Department is in principle prepared to purchase a residential service in any such home . |
| 18 | There was now a great congestion of horsemen milling around in the area between town and castle . |
| 19 | For present purposes it is sufficient to note that in right handers ideational apraxia occurs as a result of lesions located posteriorly in the left hemisphere . |
| 20 | For decades afterwards , Francoist supporters denied the carnage which took place in Badajoz , in spite of the overwhelming evidence of contemporary eye-witnesses , who saw hundreds of Republicans rounded up in the municipal bullring , heard the machine guns , and smelled the reek of bodies being burned in the cemetery . |
| 21 | At the same time , some special factor is necessary to explain his extraordinary self-confidence and strength of purposes evinced even in the face of death — the death that he himself engineered and then suffered with such calm that the image of " the dying Socrates " became a new ideal . |
| 22 | Put simply , the assumption behind the package of changes set out in the Act is that accountability , and so educational quality , are strengthened by : |
| 23 | Reconsideration of the issues raised in E 37 , E 38 and E 39 and the finalisation of the standards on each will enable the Board to reconfirm the package of changes set out in the Statement of Intent on the comparability of financial statements . |
| 24 | It bases its human rights education work on the full range of rights set out in the UDHR and ICCPR . |
| 25 | On the basis of studies carried out in the UK , Europe and the US , the report concludes that car drivers are regularly exposed to levels of pollution up to 18 times higher than cyclists . |
| 26 | The Lamarckian effect did not work , and the only conceivable mechanism of evolution was the natural selection of variations arising spontaneously in the germ plasm . |
| 27 | Believe , consider , judge , think , declare , imagine , all may precede states of affairs set out in the form of an explicit clause ; they may also precede a structure consisting of noun phrase + adjective , where the adjective is a clausal one . |
| 28 | Doyal ( 1979 ) reports that only 3 per cent of consultants work entirely in the private sector . |
| 29 | And to be really frank , one has to say when those kind of things come out in the open one has to say has the church got its priorities right ? |
| 30 | So d what sort of things go on in the flats ? |